Spiderman Spinoff “Venom” Gets Release Date

Venom, Columbia’s long-in-the-worksSpider-Manspinoff, now has a opening date.

The studio on Thursday announced it has set Oct. 5, 2018, as the release date of that comic book movie. It had previously announced itsGirl With the Dragon Tattoosequel,The Girl in the Spider’s Web, as bowing on that date, but then bumped it to Oct. 19, 2018.

The setting ofVenom‘s release date happened the same day that Warner Bros. movedAquamanoff of Oct. 5, 2018, to Dec. 18, 2018.

Venomhas no director yet, but it does have a script; Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner, the latter of whom worked on 2014’sThe Amazing Spider-Man 2, recently turned in a draft. (Dante Harper wrote a previous draft.)

Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, among the stewards of theSpider-Manproperties, are producing and overseeing the project. Amy Pascal is also producing.

Venom has been one of Marvel’s top villains and a Spider-Man fixture since he was introduced in 1988, created by writer David Michelinie and artists Todd McFarlane and Mike Zeck. The character is an alien symbiote that needs a human host to survive. In return, the alien vests its victim with incredible powers. He made his first big-screen appearance in Sam Raimi’sSpider-Man 3and was portrayed by Topher Grace.